We just got our Christmas tree, and it is up and shinning. We actually picked it up yesterday, but it was all wet as we have had a rain storm for a few days now. This is one is about 5' (150 cm) tall and maybe 3' (95 cm) round. And it was clearly cut down in August. At least, the number of needles on the floor of the garage, where I placed it to dry, would lead me to believe it was an early harvest. It didn't look so dry in the yard, but again, we had a rainstorm. Some of the other trees looked a bit worse.

I placed it in the corner after moving the couch over a bit, placed a couple strand s of lights on it (why do strings of lights always loose the ability to light up when they are placed in a box for 11 months? We have 5 sets, 3 work!) And when you have two kids with ornaments in hand, it sure takes a long time to string lights around a tree!


Eventually it got done, and hanging of ornaments commenced. For a while there, I thought all we really need to do for Christmas is bring out a tree and let the kids decorate. They loved doing it. And they really would have loved to decorate, and re-decorate, and re-decorate all night long! Then Isabelle and David wanted to take their favorite ornament, and bring it to their room to play with and admire. David wanted to play with a glass double-decker bus, Isabelle found a purplish glittery swan. We convinced them to keep everything on the tree, with the breakable stuff up and away from the reach of the daycare kids. So the tree is ready for the pretty boxes to go underneath!